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Fourteen short student exercises, for various combinations of instruments, have survived from Tchaikovsky's years in Anton Rubinstein's composition classes at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1863 or 1864:
TH | ČW | Opus | Title | Key | Description | Year |
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152 | 323 | — | Allegretto moderato | D major | For string trio | 1863/64 |
153 | 333 | — | Allegretto | E major | For string quartet | 1863/64 |
154 | 325 | — | Allegro vivace | B-flat major | For string quartet | 1863/64 |
155 | 322 | — | Andante molto | G major | For string quartet | 1863/64 |
156 | 328 | — | Adagio | C major | For horn quartet | 1863/64 |
157 | 329 | — | Andante ma non troppo | E minor | For string quintet | 1863/64 |
158 | 326 | — | Adagio molto | E-flat major | For string quartet and harp | 1863/64 |
159 | 327 | — | Allegro | C minor | For piano and string sextet | 1863/64 |
160 | 330 | — | Adagio | F major | For wind octet | 1863/64 |
161 | 334 | — | Allegro ma non tanto | G major | For string orchestra | 1863/64 |
162 | 324 | — | Largo and Allegro | D major | For two flutes and strings | 1863/64 |
163 | 331 | — | Agitato and Allegro | E minor | For small orchestra | 1863/64 |
164 | 335 | — | Andante ma non troppo | A major | For small orchestra | 1863/64 |
165 | 332 | — | Allegro vivo | C minor | For small orchestra | 1863/64 |
Several larger-scale works also date from Tchaikovsky's time as a Conservatory student, between September 1862 and December 1865:
- Boris Godunov, music for a scene in Pushkin's drama (lost)
- The Romans at the Coliseum, musical picture (lost)
- The Storm, overture to Ostrovsky's play
- Characteristic Dances for orchestra
- Overture in C minor
- Overture in F major (1st version)
- Ode to Joy, graduation cantata (1865)
- At Bedtime, chorus (2 versions)
- String Quartet in B-flat major (1 movement)
- Theme with Variations in A minor, for piano
- Impromptu in E-flat minor, for piano
- Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor (1865)
- Orchestration of Weber's Menuetto capriccioso
- Orchestration of part of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata
- Orchestration of Schumann's Symphonic Studies
- Orchestration of Gungl's waltz Le retour
- Allegro in F minor for piano (unfinished)